Archive for the 'Birds' Category

Purple Swamphens, Kerang, Victoria
Our holiday in Victoria
September 2007
The Ibis rookery just out of Kerang in northern Victoria has a well appointed bird hide, complete with a very good telescope. This birding hot spot is always worth a visit, and every time we drive through this area I plan to stop there, have a cup of [...]

Kerang Bird Hide, Victoria
Our holiday in Victoria
September 2007
From Gisborne we travelled north to Bendigo. This is a beautiful city in the gold fields region of Victoria. There are many historic buildings and places in this rural city, but we had only enough time to visit a native plant nursery - my wife’s passion - and [...]

Gang-gang Cockatoo
Our holiday in Canberra
September 2007
One of the main incentives I had for spending a whole day in the Australian National Botanic Gardens was to do some serious birding. The day we spent there was a beautiful sunny day but the birding was rather quiet. You get days like that. Despite that I managed to [...]

Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra
Our holiday in Canberra
September 2007
During our visit to Canberra earlier this year we spent a whole day at the Australian National Botanic Gardens. This time was particularly enjoyable to my wife and her interest in Australian native plants. Her camera was kept busy all day taking photos for her reference library. [...]

Our holiday in Canberra
September 2007
On arriving in Canberra late in the afternoon - after sunset actually - we checked into the Crestview Caravan Park where I had booked a cabin for our stay in the nation’s capital. This caravan is actually in Queanbeyan just over the border in New South Wales. It is only a [...]